Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died.
Enthusiastically recommended.-- Library Journal [Starred Review]. --George Steiner, Churchill College, Cambridge Produces a language that is easy to read and easy to speak....
Across more than two thousand years, a great dark music sounds for us.
The choral odes, so vital to Sophocles\' purpose, have never been rendered with finer energy and insight.
The Gibbons-Segal translation, with its rich annotations, conveys both the difficulties and the formidable immediacy.
It is also, at many points, challenging and remote from us.
Sophocles\' text is inexhaustibly actual.
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Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles\' Antigone has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny.
Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky.
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died
